A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 241
aterial of the mosaic went anChange in equally marked change in the character of the subjectssubjects of represented. The mosaics of the third and fourth cen- mosaic 1 pictures. turies probably partook, if we may judge from the fewexamples of that age which remain to us, largely of the character… … Fig. l.JU. JSta. Costanza. Alosaics of Aisle Vaults. grapes and flowers, figures of birds and animals, of so classic a char-acter as to have led the older archaeologists to believe the building ready to finish (about 1225) the consuls of the wool trade, determining to inerust thecupola with…
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